So I said, narrow the focus.
Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student
living in the dorms.
How will this software get him laid? - jwz
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monster chat!
phew
So we’ve pushed live our latest thing. This is monster chat a group video chat app that let’s you pull your friends from fb and twitter and yahoo chat and hopefully other places and have a right old natter.
Dev on this has been pretty quick. We got the basic app working within about 2 weeks. A lot of the last 2 weeks has been making sure we tweaked the Flash audio/visual settings to be optimal. We still haven’t got that right. Try opening a 24 person session and filling it up. Watch the lights dim.
What’s making this work is the same technology that makes shufflepeople work. An async app built on top of our comet server, drivel. So each chat, each entry into the room is an HTTP poll hangup and recycle.
The Flash here is pretty dumb, not even much display logic, it’s just shovelling the audio/video streams around. I really wish it was 2013 and we had HTML5 video in a large number of places.
In the spirit of eating our own dog food, the WooMe tech team has been doing it’s daily standups on a private instance of this for quite a while. Apart from the odd Flash issue it’s been working quite well with the discipline of a standup. It’ll be more difficult to make work for consumers with open mic problems and the like, we’ll see. I wonder tho if anyone else is interested in private chats with this for their own virtual company standups. Do let me know if you’d like to try it out.
